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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






2. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






3. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






4. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






5. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






6. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






7. March 17






8. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






9. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






10. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






11. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






12. Mercury occults Neptune.






13. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






14. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






15. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






16. Transit of Venus on June 11.






17. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






18. December 10






19. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






20. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






21. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






22. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






23. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






24. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






25. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






26. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






27. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






28. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






29. Return of Halley's Comet.






30. Transit of Mercury.






31. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






32. Triple conjunction Mars






33. Transit of Venus.






34. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






35. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






36. Transit of Venus on June 9.






37. Return of Halley's Comet.






38. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






39. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






40. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






41. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






42. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






43. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






44. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






45. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






46. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






47. Triple conjunction Mars






48. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






49. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






50. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G